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19/10/2022
Just a little family playdate in the super cute, Montessori-style 🌈
If I had a playroom, I’d want it to look just like this. Unfortunately, our playroom is also known as the living room, so I’m not sure the sandpit would work. 🤔
We’re also big fans of the vegan-friendly menu too - love a cafe that uses actual vegan cheese as a substitute rather than just taking things out!
Queen B said she liked it a lot (would recommend to a friend) ⭐️
19/05/2022
Pizza and a good dose of sunshine makes everything a lot better 🍕☀️
Shout out to delish Bertha's Pizza and beaut company .fj 💚
07/05/2022
We love discovering new places! A few weeks ago, we rallied the Saint ladies together and hit up Eat Your Greens - a fully vegan cafe in Totterdown, Bristol.
This award winning cafe does brunches, supper clubs and Sunday roasts, and is one of the indies that make Bristol so characterful and fab!
We tucked into their vegan brunches - mum and Alex went for Goldie Lox (the smoked carrot was a brilliant imitation of smoked salmon!) whereas I went for a Demi Beasty - the smaller serving of their HUGE (vegan) fry up 🥑 🥕
Such big fans!! Every bite was 💯 My fry-up wasn’t greasy and every bite had been seasoned brilliantly - those garlic mushrooms and veggie sausages 😍
Next on our list? Their Sunday roasts. We hear VERY good things about them too 🥹
09/03/2022
Anyone fancy a clothes swap? Coz we’re giving a few things away! 👀 🥳 [ad]
We teamed up with Untagged because we loved the concept of an app where you exchange those hard-to-sell clothes for tokens rather than money.
You can earn tokens in lots of ways - by liking a certain number of items or when someone snaps up your clothes. Then you can spend them on whatever catches your eye. Money is only involved when it comes to postage - the buyer pays the seller directly for the postage of their selected item!
We nabbed this cute Topshop bag (perfect condition 🤯😍) and summery ASOS dress for the grand total of nothing 🙌 Soph had actually been looking for a similar bag so is beyond stoked to have swapped old unwanted items for something she’d been lusting over for months 🥰
Check out the link in our bio if you fancy swapping your trash for treasure!
(FYI: the app isn’t yet available on android but hopefully soon!).
01/01/2022
It’s so easy to forget the good times after yet another tough year, but pulling this together made us remember so many forgotten moments ✨
From watching Bella Boo turn into a walking, talking little human to supporting our fave Bristol independents where we can, we’ve been lucky enough to have had a great year despite the hurdles that kept coming our way ❤️ Even if a lot of the mems are just us dressing up for the daily walk in our fave secondhand fits 😂
We won’t risk jinxing 2022 with a hope that this pandemic will magically disappear, but here’s to holding onto the good times. Happy new year! ❤️🖤
25/12/2021
A huge Merry Christmas to everyone!! 🥳✨
We definitely cheated here as we had a faux Christmas with the family last weekend 😂 So so lovely to spend it with our cousin and see baby Bella toddling around, getting into the spirit of things! She’ll always “cheers” you if she’s sees you with a drink in hand 🥂😂 the hostess with the mostess.
It’s definitely been a tough December what with covid striking everyone down left and right. It feels like Groundhog Day and it’s exhausting. We’re thinking of all who have to spend it in isolation this year and let’s all hope for a new year where life can get back on track (again).
I’m down in Devon for the next month, channeling my inner farmers wife, so it’ll be a chill Christmas for me! Just waiting impatiently for the Prosecco to be popped so I can submerge myself in mimosas for the next 20 hours 🤌🏽✨
24/12/2021
Christmas mode activated 🤩
AD: Me and Baby B were giving it the old razzle dazzle yesterday and we are finally feeling festive just in the (St.) nick of time. Isolating for most of December was not the one!
We loved the illuminated light trail with all the Christmas tunes guiding the way, and the twinkling starry sky over the enchanted village was a really nice touch. But the mini Polar Express steam train ride was the highlight for us - we thought Bella might be scared but she was into it. Look out for the snow! ⛄️
There’s also an ice rink (you can book a session separately) and a full blown funfair as well as lots of little touches like the chance to meet The Grinch, post letters to Santa, and toast your own marshmallows.
Avon Valley Christmas Nights is open next week up until and including New Year’s Eve with entry slots starting from 4.30pm, so there’s still time to squeeze in more festive fun 🤩
16/12/2021
I’m not feeling an ounce christmassy just yet, but is giving it a good shot! With a setting this festive and fancy, it sure helped me feel a bit of the magic. And also… cocktails 🥂☺️
Life has been seriously a million miles per hour with December being nonstop with dramas, health scares and other intense situations (plus buddy has decided to regress on all the separation anxiety training I’ve done over the pandemic 😩) so I’m counting down the days to this weekend.
We’re doing the Saints Christmas bonanza a week early as we’re all going in different directions for Christmas Day. And I’m so ready for it ❤️❤️
All I want for Christmas is cruelty free skincare 💫
I’ve had my eye on this pink clay mask for ages because it’s vegan, uses natural ingredients, detoxifies AND soothes redness. It’s ticking all my boxes and giving my winter skin needs all the help it can get. Self care Sunday is go ✌️
04/12/2021
Make it Christmas but with a Sri Lankan twist 💫 Ad |
We popped to for a spread of tasty Sri Lankan street food and fiery cocktails that nearly singed off our eyebrows 🔥😍
Our fave festive vegan dishes included the split sprouts with pan fried cashews, Brinjals (lightly fried aubergine) and the Ho Ho Hoppers (rice and coconut crepes) - all absolute divine washed down with a string of cocktails 🍹
Our faves definitely were the fiery golden rum Sriki-Tiki and the Agave tequila-based YAKA cocotail. Oh! And the asian inspired espresso martini. Yeh, we REALLY loved A LOT of their cocktails 😜
Perfect for street watching, tasty Asian-inspired food, fun drinks and such friendly service - we’ve found our new favourite restaurant ❤️ thanks so much for having us ! And anytime you want us to test out your cocktails, you know where to find us 😉
01/12/2021
Some December thoughts 💭
- RIP 2021 (p.s. what happened to this year 🤷🏻♀️)
- Can I get away with eating my entire advent calendar today and replace it before anyone notices.
- Why have we only JUST finalized our January campaign at work 😩😂 Classic.
- I’m nearly done with my Christmas shopping but if anyone snipes my bids, I will find you. And I will [insert ‘kill you’ or ‘steal it’].
- All I want for Christmas… are thermals 🥶 and other various items that indicate that I’m getting old.
- I’m bloody freezing working from home and abusing my heating… but also, I’m getting bothered that we’re using a ton more energy compared to when we were all centralized in one office 🤔
The first day of December isn’t even up but I think I’ve just maxed out on my brain power 👀
27/11/2021
Getting into the festive spirit with a helping hand from and 🥂🥧✨
I dragged Luka and Buddy through the storm yday so I could get stuck into the festive menu. I went for the veggie Christingle pie, chockablock with parsnips, chestnuts, leeks and cheddar 👌🏼 so delicious! Luka had the venison pie and hasn’t stopped talking about it either 👏🏽👏🏽
I’m officially activating the Christmas spirit - let’s DO THIS, Santa 🎅🏽🤘🏼
(invited):
’s Christmas campaign to help showcase the brilliant businesses and festive frolics in Bristol.
21/11/2021
Had an opulent night at the newly opened .lantern (formerly Red Light) last night 🥂❤️
A bar where I can have a cocktail in bed? Yes please 😍😍
31/10/2021
This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Pumpkins scream in the dead of night 🎃👻💀
29/10/2021
The cutest pumpkin in the patch 🎃
Wishing you all a suitably scary weekend - we’ve definitely got the weather for it! ⛈
Hoping to have a little Halloween fancy dress fun tomorrow with this little pumpkin, even if we don’t actually leave the house. I think fancy dress and kitchen discos are my parenting style 🤔😂
28/10/2021
Looking like Paris, feeling like 💕
Whisked our mum and cousin out for a mid-week birthday lunch and weren’t disappointed. Such a lovely dose of family!
And the decor in The Ivy is just 👌🏼 we were trying to figure out how to casually drag a stunning brass and wood table out the door, and wouldn’t say no to those rose quartz shelves in the ladies 😂 👀
19/10/2021
Oooo , you delicious bastard 😍
Forget about Sunday roasts - we switched our regular nut roasts for a Mexican feast of tacos, burritos and tortilla chips. It got hovered up faster than I could remember to take a snap so just trust us that the mushroom tacos are 🤌🏽
17/10/2021
I think she wants something 😂
Now we can go longer between feeds and I don’t need to be in a nursing bra 24/7, I’m trying out the Everyday underwear collection and I’m in love ❤️ This is the Pose bra - it’s underwired but you’d never think it from the way it feels - and I treated myself to some of their new sustainable briefs because the cut is 🤌
*Bra was gifted but the obsession is real.
15/10/2021
Happy Friday!! Who’s been absolutely loving the golden autumn sun this week? I live for this weather… especially when rooftops are involved 😍🍻
Keeping it chill this eve in prep for tomorrow night (invited).
If you haven’t heard of Avon Valley’s Fear night, then you are missing the hell out 🔥 hit the highlight on our profile to see what it did to us back in 2019… and we’ve heard this year has got even scarier and has leveled up. RELEASE THE CLOWNS!! 🤡
Outfit details:
♻️ Silk shirt: hand-me-down from Mama Saint
♻️ Black jeans:
17/09/2021
Jeez, I’ve got so many snaps from the summer so get prepared for some photo dumps ✨
This was from our quick impromptu trip to Glastonbury for my birthday - from exploring the Tor and crystal shops to birthday cake in the beautiful (the most beautiful dog-friendly Inn!), we sure crammed in a lot in 48 hours!
Have you been to Glastonbury?
11/09/2021
Today’s the day! So excited to be heading down to the M Shed in Bristol for ♻️💜 (gifted)
This weekend, they’re hosting a series of talks by the likes of .uk
Plus you can catch .market all weekend!
also has a load of community events over the next two weeks: clothes swaps, clothes trails, up cycling sessions, sewing workshops - SO MUCH 🤯💛
So stoked to be heading down - will I see you there? 👀
30/08/2021
Bank holiday energy 🥂 Not really though coz I was in bed by 9pm 🙃
We’re spoiled with cool pubs in BS5, and The Red Lion is a sunny day fave! Love the beer garden, love the vibe, and they do vegan pizza so they had me at hello 👋🍕
Skirt
26/08/2021
Why it’s international dog day! 💕 So I’m quickly using it as an excuse to shove snaps of my fuzzy orange son in your face. But I just love him soh much 😭
Buddy’s a rescue who I’ve had since October 2019. The poor little guy was riddled with anxiety when he arrived and it’s been one heck of a long journey to get him where he is today.
Lockdown was the quiet he needed to adjust and get his confidence. The world was just such a scary place for him when he was young - he had panic attacks 1-2 times a week until we made the decision to put him on anxiety medication. His quality of life was shot to s**t and it was the only option after we’d exhausted natural remedies and careful training.
He also had separation anxiety, confinement issues, noise sensitivity and a serious fear of all travel (linked to noise sensitivity I think… we’ve got him to 20 mins in the car so far…). Not everything has been solved but with a f**k load of patience and love, we’re getting there.
He’s come so far and his confidence is a whole new level compared to a year ago. He’s the light of my life and well worth the tears, stress and worries. I couldn’t imagine life without this little character!
There are so many pups and dogs out there who desperately need a home. So please if possible!! And be aware that ALL dogs (regardless of being a rescue or not) are complex creatures with their own emotions and fears. And they’re 1000% worth it 🥰
21/08/2021
Happy weekend, y’all!! 🥂
Nothing much to report here. Just another weekend and another birthday celebration 🥳 turns out that nearly the whole fam’s birthdays are crammed into two months. And yes, we’re also counting the dogs birthdays too 😂 It’s been a hectic summer…
Outfit details:
Alex: Topshop dress:
Sophie: old fast fashion dress: 4 y/o
10/08/2021
The cutest little hideaway from the storms ☔️☕️
📍
07/08/2021
Big fan of ’s new cafe just around the corner from our neck of the woods 🤘🏼which means I can ‘take the dog for a walk’ but actually just go and eat copious amounts of their fish finger sandwiches 🤤
05/08/2021
We may not be going abroad on a sister trip this year, but the holiday vibes were real at the Aztec Hotel & Spa spa break… with work and parenting to deal with, we’ve got to grab that quality time when we can! ❤️ (gifted)
Super close to Bristol, offers a gorgeous pool, sauna and whirlpool bath as well as a lush restaurant terrace for a post-spa Prosecco and afternoon tea. We also highly recommend the back and shoulder massage if you’re looking for a relaxing treatment! It’s been a tough year, so the knots were real 😂
They’re currently running a midweek spa break offer which includes use of the spa, a lunch or afternoon tea with Prosecco, and a treatment. So, if you’re in need of some R&R, definitely check it out 👀
We’ll be returning to give lil Bella Boo a dip… And Auntie Sophie will sink all the Prosecco for the three of us 😜🥂
28/07/2021
Another year older, another year wiser 🥳🥂🎈
… Apart from still making poor outfit decisions in the blazing heat 🖤 Note to self: don’t wear all black for a humid day in Ashton Court 🥵
Heading off to Glastonbury for my birthday today! I’ve never been and I’m mega excited to climb the Tor and buy ALL the crystals 🔮 if you have any recommendations of what to do/see/eat/drink, then please let me know! It’s such a last min decision that I’ve done no research 🙈
Outfit details:
♻️ jeans:
♻️ Urban Outfitter top: 8 years old
♻️ Sunnies: Old fast fashion
♻️ Fila trainers:
25/07/2021
Just a heatwave photo dump of me and my mini 🥰 Tbh we spent a lot of it as hot and bothered as we look in the first pic! But in between, there was a picnic, the park, a lovely day trip to a weir, and lots of sticky feeds. Trying to slow down and treasure these little moments together in our last summer before I go back to work and she starts at nursery… I’ll be ready for a change and all, but oh don’t they grow up fast. 🥺
22/07/2021
Activate summer mode!!! ❤️🔥
As usual, a heatwave has sent us all wild for water - so happy to finally find a spot in the river where I don’t have to dodge bundles of nettles! Although I did slip straight on my arse once our little mud path got wet and extra slippery 🙈😂
Enjoy the heat! And be careful out there - if you’re wild swimming, take care and know your depth… and pls do it sober 🙈
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Happy New Year!✨🥂
It’s so easy to forget the good times after yet another tough year, but pulling this together made us remember so many forgotten moments ✨
From watching Bella Boo turn into a walking, talking little human to supporting our fave Bristol independents where we can, we’ve been lucky enough to have had a great year despite the hurdles that kept coming our way ❤️ Even if a lot of the mems are just us dressing up for the daily walk in our fave secondhand fits 😂
We won’t risk jinxing 2022 with a hope that this pandemic will magically disappear, but here’s to holding onto the good times. Happy new year! ❤️🖤
Whether you’ve just stumbled across us or keep up with us regularly (Hi Mum!), thanks for dropping by!
We are Alex and Sophie Saint, sisters holding down 9 to 5s in our beloved hometown of Bristol who can’t resist that boutique travel lifestyle. This blog may have started out as a record of our backpacking adventures but as we’ve grown up, this space has too. While neither of us earns big-time bucks, we’re damn good at finding the best boutique places to stay, eat and drink as well as fun experiences outside of the big-ticket attractions you’d find in any old guidebook. And we want to share what we find with you!
We love…
Chic, unique accommodation.
Budget eats that blow our minds.
Quirky cocktail bars and pubs with personality.
Alternative activities in destinations around the world.
We hope our blog makes you as happy as it makes us and are always looking to connect with like-minded peeps. Follow our @saintsbyname mission to boutique and boujee on a budget – we’d love to say hi!
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